Re: [PATCH v6 1/7] perf vendor events arm64: Add common topdown L1 metrics

From: John Garry
Date: Fri Jan 06 2023 - 10:59:53 EST


On 06/01/2023 15:05, Jing Zhang wrote:
The metrics of topdown L1 are from ARM sbsa7.0 platform design doc[0],
D37-38, which are standard. So put them in the common file sbsa.json of
arm64, so that other cores besides n2/v2 can also be reused.

Slots may be different in each architecture, so added "#slots" literal
to get different constant for each architecture.

The value of slots comes from the register PMMIR_EL1, which I can read
in /sys/bus/event_source/device/armv8_pmuv3_*/caps/slots. PMMIR_EL1.SLOT
might read as zero if the STALL_SLOT event is not implemented or the PMU
version is lower than ID_AA64DFR0_EL1_PMUVer_V3P4.

[0] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://documentation-service.arm.com/static/60250c7395978b529036da86?token=__;!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!J5JW3y6GhaJUqLfbEAzWIy4GJOhUkHQN4D5hEv3Outpzd54fN1Nt4LNKGnuRtMAepS_Nit-KLSUW98tVfFR0TmMVGQ$

Signed-off-by: Jing Zhang <renyu.zj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>

hmmm... you have made significant changes in this version (compared to previous), so I would not have picked up this tag. That's just my opinion.

As for the patchset org, I'd move the JSON change here into patch #2, and make this patch purely about add "slots" literal support for arm64.

---
tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/pmu.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/sbsa.json | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.py | 2 ++
tools/perf/util/expr.c | 5 +++++
tools/perf/util/pmu.c | 5 +++++
tools/perf/util/pmu.h | 1 +
6 files changed, 65 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/sbsa.json

diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/pmu.c b/tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/pmu.c
index 477e513..227dadb 100644
--- a/tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/pmu.c
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/pmu.c
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
#include <internal/cpumap.h>
#include "../../../util/cpumap.h"
#include "../../../util/pmu.h"
+#include <api/fs/fs.h>
const struct pmu_events_table *pmu_events_table__find(void)
{
@@ -24,3 +25,24 @@ const struct pmu_events_table *pmu_events_table__find(void)
return NULL;
}
+
+int perf_pmu__get_slots(void)
+{
+ char path[PATH_MAX];
+ unsigned long long slots = 0;
+ struct perf_pmu *pmu = NULL;
+
+ while ((pmu = perf_pmu__scan(pmu)) != NULL) {
+ if (is_pmu_core(pmu->name))
+ break;
+ }

There is a lot in common with arm64's pmu_events_table__find() - can you factor it out? I also prefer how we check for homogeneous CPUs in pmu_events_table__find() (which you should do, also).

+ if (pmu) {
+ scnprintf(path, PATH_MAX,
+ EVENT_SOURCE_DEVICE_PATH "%s/caps/slots", pmu->name);
+ /* The value of slots is not greater than INT_MAX, but sysfs__read_int
+ * can't read value with 0x prefix, so use sysfs__read_ull instead.
+ */
+ sysfs__read_ull(path, &slots);
+ }
+ return (int)slots;
+}
diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/sbsa.json b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/sbsa.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f678c37e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/sbsa.json
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+[
+ {
+ "MetricExpr": "stall_slot_frontend / (#slots * cpu_cycles)",
+ "BriefDescription": "Frontend bound L1 topdown metric",
+ "MetricGroup": "TopdownL1",
+ "MetricName": "frontend_bound",
+ "ScaleUnit": "100%"
+ },
+ {
+ "MetricExpr": "(1 - op_retired / op_spec) * (1 - stall_slot / (#slots * cpu_cycles))",
+ "BriefDescription": "Bad speculation L1 topdown metric",
+ "MetricGroup": "TopdownL1",
+ "MetricName": "bad_speculation",
+ "ScaleUnit": "100%"
+ },
+ {
+ "MetricExpr": "(op_retired / op_spec) * (1 - stall_slot / (#slots * cpu_cycles))",
+ "BriefDescription": "Retiring L1 topdown metric",
+ "MetricGroup": "TopdownL1",
+ "MetricName": "retiring",
+ "ScaleUnit": "100%"
+ },
+ {
+ "MetricExpr": "stall_slot_backend / (#slots * cpu_cycles)",
+ "BriefDescription": "Backend Bound L1 topdown metric",
+ "MetricGroup": "TopdownL1",
+ "MetricName": "backend_bound",
+ "ScaleUnit": "100%"
+ }
+]
diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.py b/tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.py
index 4c398e0..0416b74 100755
--- a/tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.py
+++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.py
@@ -358,6 +358,8 @@ def preprocess_arch_std_files(archpath: str) -> None:
for event in read_json_events(item.path, topic=''):
if event.name:
_arch_std_events[event.name.lower()] = event
+ if event.metric_name:
+ _arch_std_events[event.metric_name.lower()] = event
def print_events_table_prefix(tblname: str) -> None:
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/expr.c b/tools/perf/util/expr.c
index 00dcde3..3d67707 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/expr.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/expr.c
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
#include <linux/zalloc.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <math.h>
+#include "pmu.h"
#ifdef PARSER_DEBUG
extern int expr_debug;
@@ -448,6 +449,10 @@ double expr__get_literal(const char *literal, const struct expr_scanner_ctx *ctx
result = topology->core_cpus_lists;
goto out;
}
+ if (!strcmp("#slots", literal)) {
+ result = perf_pmu__get_slots();
+ goto out;
+ }
pr_err("Unrecognized literal '%s'", literal);
out:
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/pmu.c b/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
index 2bdeb89..d4cace2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
@@ -1993,3 +1993,8 @@ int perf_pmu__cpus_match(struct perf_pmu *pmu, struct perf_cpu_map *cpus,
*ucpus_ptr = unmatched_cpus;
return 0;
}
+
+int __weak perf_pmu__get_slots(void)
+{
+ return 0;

should this be NAN?

+}
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/pmu.h b/tools/perf/util/pmu.h
index 69ca000..a2f7df8 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/pmu.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/pmu.h
@@ -259,4 +259,5 @@ int perf_pmu__cpus_match(struct perf_pmu *pmu, struct perf_cpu_map *cpus,
char *pmu_find_real_name(const char *name);
char *pmu_find_alias_name(const char *name);
+int perf_pmu__get_slots(void);

I think that this name is a bit too vague. Maybe perf_pmu__cpu_cycles_per_slot() could be better.

#endif /* __PMU_H */

Thanks,
John